Tell and Story Slide (Advanced Animation)

99.9% of PowerPoint presentations present 50% or less of the intended information on the slides. The presentations are designed for a presenter/teacher to share half or more of the information
verbally. In some cases this can lead to presentations that are really just a standard lecture with a little extra visual support. To help presenters focus more on presenting information visually
and to learn advanced animation techniques we encourage presenters to use a “Tell a Story Slide”.

A Tell a Story Slide can be used to:

• Share content
• Reinforce content
• Provide a “humor” break
• Review content at the end (of section or entire presentation)

Tell a Story Slide
Use the Slide Show > Custom Animation tool to have 2+ images “talk” and present content automatically.
Directions:

1. Place two images on a slide. Use the “Blank” layout from (2000/2003) “Format > Slide Layout” or (2007/2010) “Home > Layout”.
2. Use (2000/2003) “Auto-Shapes > Callouts” or (2007/2010) “Insert > Shapes > Callouts” to create the “cartoon bubbles” for the dialogue.
3. Access (2000/2003) Slide Show > Custom Animation or (2007) Animations > Custom Animation or (2010) Animations > use ribbon and assign the Entrance Effect of "Appear".

• Place them in the right order
• use the animation’s “dropdown > Start After Previous"
• use the animation’s “dropdown > Timings > Delay Timing” of 2 (for the first) and 5ish (for the rest) seconds for all animated callouts.
• On the “dropdown > Effect Options” choice on all callouts change the After Animation item from "Don't Dim" to “Hide on Next Mouse Click” to remove the callout when another character’s bubble comes in.
• Note: You can easily have up to a dozen callouts on one single slide. But, break up long conversations over several slides to make it easier to keep track of the conversation. On the second+ slides do not animate the characters (images).

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